Papers by Nadia Diakun-Thibault
The President's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is "enabling a new era of clinical care throu... more The President's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is "enabling a new era of clinical care through research, technology, and policies that empower patients, researchers, and providers to work together toward the development of individualized care". 1 Its commitment to privacy and security in the setting of responsible data sharing and transparency is articulated in the "Privacy and Trust Principles" 1 and the "Data Security Policy Principles and Framework" 2 , developed by an interagency working groups including the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in conjunction with multiple stakeholders. In this paper, we review the threats to the security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability of PMI data. PMI organizations can mitigate these challenges through a new system architecture in development at MIT --the OPAL/Enigma project 3 --which creates a peer-topeer network that enables parties to jointly store and analyze data with complete privacy, based on highly optimized version of multi-party computation with a secret-sharing. An auditable, tamper-proof distributed ledger (a permissioned blockchain) records and controls access through smart contracts and digital identities. We conclude with an initial use case of OPAL/Enigma that could empower precision medicine clinical trials and research. MIT's OPAL/Enigma challenges traditional data security paradigms. Centralized databases cannot assure security and data integrity, regardless de-identification and controlled access requirements. Safe, vetted queries that are distributed to private, encrypted databases assure that organizations and participants can share health care data with cryptographic guarantees of privacy with various stakeholders, assuring momentum for a new era of medical research and practice.
Magocsi, Paul R., Diakun, Nadia Odette. University of Toronto. Library. Ucrainica at the Universi... more Magocsi, Paul R., Diakun, Nadia Odette. University of Toronto. Library. Ucrainica at the University of Toronto Library : a catalogue of holdings / compiled by Paul Robert Magocsi ; with the assistance of Nadia Odette Diakun. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1985- isbn 0802034306 : catalogue key 3321436
The Explicator, 1983
ABSTRACT The Explicator Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription ... more ABSTRACT The Explicator Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the "Content") contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information. Taylor and Francis shall not be liable for any losses, actions, claims, proceedings, demands, costs, expenses, damages, and other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with, in relation to or arising out of the use of the Content.
This document represents v0.3 of our model privacy principles for digital contact tracing applica... more This document represents v0.3 of our model privacy principles for digital contact tracing applications and services that leverage personal individual location and proximity data to combat COVID-19. This work follows up on the MIT Computational Law Report’s Contact Tracing Privacy Principles, an on-going initiative that was first published in the Spring. "Commentary on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Privacy Principles" is the collaborative effort of Dazza Greenwood, Bryan Wilson, Ryan Carrier, Mark Potkewitz, Ajintha Pathmanathan, Nadia Diakun-Thibault, Cari Spivack, Matt Gee, Nishant Bhajaria, Kelsey Finch, Pagona Tsormpatzoudi, Jonathan Askin, and Tony Lai
The President’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is “enabling a new era of clinical care throu... more The President’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is “enabling a new era of clinical care through research, technology, and policies that empower patients, researchers, and providers to work together toward the development of individualized care”. Its commitment to privacy and security in the setting of responsible data sharing and transparency is articulated in the “Privacy and Trust Principles” and the “Data Security Policy Principles and Framework”, developed by an interagency working groups including the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in conjunction with multiple stakeholders. In this paper, we review the threats to the security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability of PMI data. PMI organizations can mitigate these challenges through a new system architecture in development at MIT -- the OPAL/Enigma project -- which creates a peer-to-peer network that enables parties to jointly store and analyze data with complete privacy, based on...
Technology Innovation Management Review
Technology Innovation Management Review
Introduction In an online world where users expect instant information and seamless flow of data,... more Introduction In an online world where users expect instant information and seamless flow of data, stakeholders expect new technologies to be absorbed by society and industries as soon as it is available. However, this has not been the case of the healthcare industry, despite technologic advances and economic relevance of technological innovation. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)4 acknowledged that healthcare stakeholders should assist in creating a new infrastructure for the industry and its users, whether government agencies, drug developers, doctors or patients.
The foundation of a new healthcare IT system lays in, among other measures, the creation of a platform that allows interoperability; the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR), creation of standards and formats that can be widely adopted by the stakeholders; safe storage of all the data that is collected by all healthcare agents with the highest regard to participant privacy and secure and efficient exchange of health information between the parties respecting the privacy of all those whose information is involved.
In this paper, we posit the adoption of OPAL/Enigma5,6, an encrypted platform that is able to create a secure environment for the storage and analysis of healthcare information by using blockchain technology, as an effective solution to address the privacy and security concerns of the stakeholders. OPAL/ENIGMA is also a potential tool to resolve infrastructural matters, such as time and cost related to the analysis, storage and manipulation of health information. A framework for precision medicine trials, development of more comparative trials, cheaper development of drugs and assignment of more effective treatments to patients are also potential future benefits.
Cybersecurity is a broadly used term, whose definitions are highly variable, often subjective, an... more Cybersecurity is a broadly used term, whose definitions are highly variable, often subjective, and at times, uninformative. The absence of a concise, broadly acceptable definition that captures the multidimensionality of cybersecurity impedes technological and scientific advances by reinforcing the predominantly technical view of cybersecurity while separating disciplines that should be acting in concert to resolve complex cybersecurity challenges. In conjunction with an in-depth literature review, we led multiple discussions on cybersecurity with a diverse group of practitioners, academics, and graduate students to examine multiple perspectives of what should be included in a definition of cybersecurity. In this article, we propose a resulting new definition: "Cybersecurity is the organization and collection of resources, processes, and structures used to protect cyberspace and cyberspace-enabled systems from occurrences that misalign de jure from de facto property rights.&quo...
In Solzhenitsyn’s complex and intriguing novel First Circle, Spiridon’s maxim has been discussed ... more In Solzhenitsyn’s complex and intriguing novel First Circle, Spiridon’s maxim has been discussed only once,’ to the best of my knowledge, and deserves further analysis. Spiridon, the Mavrino sharashka janitor, offers a cryptic maxim in Chapter 63: Volkodav prav, a liudoyed-nyet, ‘The wolfhound is right, but the cannibal-[is] not.’*
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Nadia Odette Diakun (1983) Solzhenitsyn's First Circle, The Explicator, 42:1, 59-61
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Papers by Nadia Diakun-Thibault
The foundation of a new healthcare IT system lays in, among other measures, the creation of a platform that allows interoperability; the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR), creation of standards and formats that can be widely adopted by the stakeholders; safe storage of all the data that is collected by all healthcare agents with the highest regard to participant privacy and secure and efficient exchange of health information between the parties respecting the privacy of all those whose information is involved.
In this paper, we posit the adoption of OPAL/Enigma5,6, an encrypted platform that is able to create a secure environment for the storage and analysis of healthcare information by using blockchain technology, as an effective solution to address the privacy and security concerns of the stakeholders. OPAL/ENIGMA is also a potential tool to resolve infrastructural matters, such as time and cost related to the analysis, storage and manipulation of health information. A framework for precision medicine trials, development of more comparative trials, cheaper development of drugs and assignment of more effective treatments to patients are also potential future benefits.
To cite this article:
Nadia Odette Diakun (1983) Solzhenitsyn's First Circle, The Explicator, 42:1, 59-61
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.1983.9939402
The foundation of a new healthcare IT system lays in, among other measures, the creation of a platform that allows interoperability; the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR), creation of standards and formats that can be widely adopted by the stakeholders; safe storage of all the data that is collected by all healthcare agents with the highest regard to participant privacy and secure and efficient exchange of health information between the parties respecting the privacy of all those whose information is involved.
In this paper, we posit the adoption of OPAL/Enigma5,6, an encrypted platform that is able to create a secure environment for the storage and analysis of healthcare information by using blockchain technology, as an effective solution to address the privacy and security concerns of the stakeholders. OPAL/ENIGMA is also a potential tool to resolve infrastructural matters, such as time and cost related to the analysis, storage and manipulation of health information. A framework for precision medicine trials, development of more comparative trials, cheaper development of drugs and assignment of more effective treatments to patients are also potential future benefits.
To cite this article:
Nadia Odette Diakun (1983) Solzhenitsyn's First Circle, The Explicator, 42:1, 59-61
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.1983.9939402